{"id":78164,"date":"2002-03-01T15:59:02","date_gmt":"2002-03-01T15:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=78164"},"modified":"2017-05-03T16:17:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T15:17:51","slug":"index-censorship-award-winners-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=78164","title":{"rendered":"Index on Censorship Award winners 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Most Courageous Defence of Free Expression\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Anna Politkovskaya<\/strong>\u00a0was an internationally recognised Russian journalist with the newspaper\u00a0<em>Novaya Gazeta<\/em>\u00a0who reported on human rights violations in Chechnya and corruption of governmental officials. She was killed in the elevator of her apartment building on 7 October 2006.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Circumvention of Censorship<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u015eanar Yurdatapan<\/strong>\u00a0is a Turkish composer and song writer who campaigns against the prosecution of publishers by the Turkish authorities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antenna-tr.org\">http:\/\/www.antenna-tr.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>International Whistleblower of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jiang Weiping<\/strong>\u00a0is a Chinese journalist who was arrested by the Communist Party of China and sentenced to 8 year\u2019s imprisonment in 2001 for exposing government corruption. He was released on 4 January 2006.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Award for Services to Censorship<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Italian Prime Minister\u00a0<strong>Silvio Berlusconi<\/strong>\u00a0was given this precious award for his increasingly authoritarian grip on the Italian media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the winners of the 2002 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[8935],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78165,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78164\/revisions\/78165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}